Sunday, October 29, 2006

Linux Usage on the Rise in Large Companies

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"Linux usage in the servers of large companies is continuing to rise. 73% of enterprise companies are running Linux on at least some of their servers. Just six months ago that figure was 67% and a year ago it was 65%, as per Evans Data Corp's latest Enterprise Development Issues Survey."

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Friday, October 27, 2006

Frozen Bubble 2.0.0 game is out

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"One of the most addictive Linux games, Frozen Bubble, just got updated to version 2.0.0. The new version brings you a new singleplayer game mode (multiplayer training), network (LAN, Internet) game mode (up to 5 players), fully revamped graphics, full joystick support, recording and playback of all games with non-predefined levels and more."

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UbuntuGuide.org for Edgy Eft

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"The official Ubuntu Guide at ubuntuguide.org for Edgy. Based on the popular, command-driven guide by Chua, this is the latest version for Edgy Eft."

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Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Open source VoIP calling is finally a reality

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"A bunch of strongly motivated and skilled open source developers (W. Dittman, F. Pouzols, M. De Boer amongst others) created a fully secure, free VoIP stack ready to be used in applications. Will secure communication apps pop up like mushrooms now?"

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Mark Shuttleworth: We need to make Ubuntu prettier

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"If we want the world to embrace free software, we have to make it beautiful. I?m not talking about inner beauty, not elegance, not ideological purity? pure, unadulterated, raw, visceral, lustful, shallow, skin deep beauty."

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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Red Hat's Reach Into Telecom

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"Linux leader Red Hat has unveiled an aggressive effort to expand its reach in the telecommunications industry, leveraging its acquired JBoss middleware and open source technology in the space and joining a European community project aimed at fostering an open service telecom infrastructure."

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Monday, October 23, 2006

What goes where in Linux?

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"I've been using Linux for my personal computer for a few years now, but I've never really been interested in where I actually SHOULD put the applications and which I install. This guide does a pretty good job of briefly explaining what data goes in the various directories: /usr, /opt, /var, /etc etc."

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